Apple TV 5.1.1 Update

Middle of update on ATV3. Moving VERY slow. Like 20 minutes to the half point slow. But still going. We shall see.

My step 1 took roughly 45 minutes to complete. Step 2 took the normal 2-3 minutes and then all was well.

Update took 1 hour 15 minutes. And all is well!

I downloaded it for my atv3 it downloaded just fine from wireless. I find the air play a lot less laggy with mountain lion as I can actually use airplay now

Man am I ever glad it was not only me with this issue. Really, W_T_F is going on at Apple these days? I think we have seen Apple's best days & we are on the downhill now. I hope I'm wrong. 😐

Mine took about 90 minutes and the last 50% of the progress bar seemed to take longer than the first 50% but it eventually got there and is working fine without any intervention needed.

Did you update on wifi or thru ethernet? I'm going to try wifi when I get home later. No luck thru ethernet for me.

Opened ATV this morning and it told me I had an update available right away... d/l went sucessful, update install sucessfull. took aprox. 5 min.

Servers must have been swamped yesterday.... guess its not a hobby

Thank You

Your answer worked for me too. I removed the Ethernet cable and the update was successful over WI-FI.

@Gary - mine downloaded fine & it sounds like it did like others that posted here. It just failed during the install. MANY times. 😁 I will try wifi later like the others & keep my fingers crossed.... We need the old Apple back!

I was having the same problem, eventually gave up and tried to do a restore via cable and itunes. iTunes 11 didn't recognise my Apple TV, but by chance I plugged my box back into a TV, and it booted with an update notification, blitzed through it in about 2 minutes. So something must be working, it just likes to take its sweet time doing so.

After unplugging ethernet and updateing over WiFi -- success!

Unplugging ethernet worked for me too!

I have an Apple TV 3rd generation wired via Ethernet to a nearby router.

I had the 5.1.1 update fail on an Apple TV 3rd generation last night and this morning repeatedly. It failed at the end of Step 1 after about 5 minutes (progress bar would hang at the end), then an error message appeared saying that the "update was not successful" and suggested a restart.

1. Soft restart and update did not work.
2. Hard restart and update did not work.
3. Reset to factory default did not work.
4. Plugging into a PC with iTunes 11 via a micro USB cable gave the error message that hardware could not be located or something along those lines. I tried this on two Windows 8 64-bit PCs with fresh iTunes 11 installs.

I was going to attempt a restore from an iTunes 10 Mac today, which I have access to at work (BYOT school). Right before leaving for work this morning after several failed updates, I tried unplugging the Ethernet and connecting the Apple TV to my home WiFi network. Sure enough, the update only took about 5 minutes and was successful.

Bottom line, connect to WiFi for the update. The box is working fine after then reconnecting to Ethernet.

I wouldn't call this a fix, but a workaround.

Same problem as everyone else, and yes, removing the ethernet cable resolved it. As reported by others, I could not restore through iTunes 11 either (device not found, and then linking to a page that tried to claim that it was a windows-only problem - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1275 - even on my MBA)

I find it scary that these software updates have rolled out with flaws like this. Hope somebody from Apple sees this and takes corrective action.